Week 14: Project Week 3

Documentation

The photography is obviously a huge part of my project. One of the questions that Marjolijn (my coach) asked me is whether I wanted to go for analogue or digital photography. I thought about it and both sides have advantages and disadvantages. Analogue photography provides much more detail for black and white photographs, but I would have to buy an analogue camera. I don’t have one right now. I do own a digital camera with a decent amount of memory, which would allow me to take much more photographs. Also, my digital camera is able to take black and white photographs, so I don’t have to manually convert every single image in Photoshop. I’m going to think about this before I make any rash decisions.

This week we also had our first reframing session. This is done with Laura. Every two weeks we sit with her to discuss the progress of our project, what we’re doing etcetera. These sessions are mainly used to regain focus for the project. Otherwise, we might drift too far away from the main goals we set for ourselves at the beginning. Discussing with Laura, she asked about where photographers (the consumers, so to say) could access the recipes I come up with for my filters. This is where the decision was made to think about some sort of platform where people could go to, to find the recipes to make the filters for themselves. This could, again, be done in both an analogue or a digital way. An analogue way to approach this would be some sort of book, where recipes and examples of photographs could be found. On the other hand, a digital approach would be a website where visitors can find recipes and see immediately what sort of effect a filter would have on a photograph.

Just like the analogue vs digital camera question, both options have pros and cons. A book would have to be pressed multiple times, costing more money. It does have the artistic high ground, compared to a website. Holding the photographs physically in your hands sound much more appealing to me personally. I’m going to discuss this with Marjolijn next week.

Trail of evidence